Food systems assessment
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 26, 2011 at 06:44 PM
Assessing the San Diego County Food System: Indicators for a More Food Secure Future (Dec. 2010)
posted in Environmental & Public Health • Publications, Reports, Conferences • Sustainability Science & Technology • Urban Development and Planning •
Measuring efforts to translate science into public health action
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 21, 2011 at 09:21 AM
NIEHS formally launches its new Evaluation Metrics Manual(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/programs/peph/materials/index.cfm). The manual targets programs in the NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH)(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/programs/peph/index.cfm) program (see text box) with guidance for researchers and program staff on ways to use logic models to define what constitutes success and how to measure it.
posted in Environmental & Public Health • Information & Communications • Publications, Reports, Conferences • Research & Funding Opportunities • Universities & Engaged Scholarship •
UN concerned about food riots
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 18, 2011 at 07:16 PM
UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots. Poor harvests and demand from developing countries could push cost of weekly shop up by 10%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/sep/05/commodities-food-drink-industry?intcmp=239
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New Urbanists verses Landscape Urbanists
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 13, 2011 at 08:49 PM
Green building: Are cities the best place to live? Are suburbs OK? A fight grows in urban planning, with Harvard at the center
posted in Urban Development and Planning •
Linking progressive planning research to action regionally and globally
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 13, 2011 at 02:22 PM
Creating ways to translate progressive critique into progressive action, and on a scale that can begin to transform some very powerful, entrenched forces that stand in the way.
posted in Activism & Social Change • Grand Challenges • Universities & Engaged Scholarship •